It blows my mind that I'm able to just look up stuff like this. I mean, not just look up some information on the event, but with one click get transported back in time there. Thanks for the vid.
@@bezolsmate when i realized: 1996 was 26 year ago ... i tought "we get great 3D games on N64, games can't get any better anymore" and ... I was right.
These people's minds must have been completely blown by this in 1995. And they all suck at the game because they've never encountered anything like it before. Incredible.
I saw Mario 64 running on a videogame rental store back in 1996 and my mind was blown away. I was 12 and was already saving some money for it helping my patents with restaurant they had back in the day, and I managed to buy a N64 in 1997 on the age of 13, with my own money. It was such a happy day. Good old times.
Wow this is pure gold, the only public footage of the mario 64 demo, were a few pics on magazines , publicity, official videos and some tv news, here you bring the complete puzzle of how was the beta version, amazing, thanks for this.
What's great about old footage like this is stuff you can't see in screenshots and magazines. Like Mario's awful acceleration curve and super touchy turn radius that would have made this game awful if Nintendo didn't change it. lol
pretty sure the "touchy turn radius" is because of the controller and not the game, as this version of the controller apparently used a square gate rather than an octagonal gate
12:16 Sheesh, the slowdown when the submarine is on-screen is even worse in the beta demo! Also, I hadn't noticed before, but there's mines in the water next to the sub. Man, this video is chock-full of beta content! The minimap, the level select, the hilarious voice clips...
in the final game, some of the object files were built in O2 (namely title screen and sound driver), while here, nothing seems to have been built with O2, causing even more lag
New footage, and a lot of it. This is a pretty good day for the SM64 beta community. Some things i've noticed and will point out are: -SM64 once had a minimap. Which button was used to trigger it though? My bets are on the L button. -We have much more footage of the ice level now, including where the Tall Tall Mountain slide was in the beta. -The castle's layout is mostly revealed. Door on far left leads to the ice level, the one on the far right is Dire Dire docks, the one next to DDD is Lethal Lava land, so the door next to the ice level is Whomp's Fortress, probably. -When Mario has 2 HP or less, the entire HP meter turns red, if you look hard enough. This is also the first time we've seen Mario's HP go this low in the beta, I think. -If you listen as Mario grabs a star, he says 'Yeah!', obviously in a similar voice as the rest of his beta clips. -Mario flies when shot out of a cannon, as if having a wing cap. However, there's at least one thing we have yet to see: While we finally have footage of Mario going into the doors that would lead to the backyard of Peach's castle in the final version, we don't get to see Mario actually go into the door at the end of the hallway, which is a shame. What was back there in the beta version? Will that ever be answered?
one of the platforms has a red blob on it, referenced on TCRF, at around 4:06 all throughout: mario doesn't lean in the direction he's running, which makes me think its smoother ~ 5:16 mario gets tired a lot quicker 5:36 mario doesn't do a minuscule jump upon touching a damaging fire hitbox, instead immediately starting to run from the burn 6:14 bowser's face's silhouette on death seems to be different, with more prominent cheekbones? 6:16 mario's "getting up from losing a life" animation is a bit different 7:41 mario doesn't seem to get a special "landing from high height" from snow, and instead takes fall damage
So the Cool Cool Mountain slide was originally Tall Tall Mountain's? Interesting. I also liked the Japanese people's reactions to the penguin chasing Mario there.
+darkspire 17 Actually the map select calls it Mountain. You can actually translate it in the video, watch the menu that appears after he dies in the lava land.
About to turn 41 still gamer here. I first saw this in a magazine back in September 95. I wanted this console and game so badly that I held out against the PSX (though I got one in the end as swell as my n64). It wouldn’t be until February 1997 that I got to spend a whole day playing Mario on a pre release demo at toys r us. Finally got mine at a midnight launch party March 1st 1997 with my mum dad and brother present. One of the best nights of my life! When I first saw Mario 64 I was blown away and I have never wanted a game so much since. The Nintendo 64 and it’s controller were works of art to me too! Now I have Mario 64 on the wii and dust it off about once every 2 years. Same goes for Mario bros 3. Mario bros 2 (us version) and game cube zelda wind waker atm. Thankyou shigeru for so many astounding games. EDIT: the magazine I first read this was issue 40 of superplay (February 1996) and I still have the magazine
Oh my gosh. I have looked a lot into the Super Mario 64 beta, and never saw ANY of this before!! I didn't realize there were segments so extensively filmed. The Super Mario 64 beta I've always wondered about, also kinda wish we coulda gotten our hands on a cartridge from the demo and someone could upload the ROM to the internet, just to see how far the game had come. This is awesome! [Also neat seeing how confusing 3D controls were at first to people haha X3]
They actually found the cartridge someone demo’d at the E3 show at Nintendo back then when they were talking about the unveiling of the game, it’s only one particular game in existance also as well, it was a Nintendo 64 “Disk Drive” game that was a entirely completed Disk for the Nintendo 64 add-on but it was used for demoing purposes at the E3 show back in 1996, the game was label titled a bit differently also, it said Super Mario 64 Disk Edition and was the only one they ever made because the N64 DD failed to sale in Japan, so they couldn’t produce more cartridges with the budget they earned then to make more of the cartridge, the cartridge was however found being sold on eBay from someone auctioning it, the guy who got the cartridge/disk knew how to dump Nintendo 64 games on to the internet for the n64 emulators, so he dumped the game onto the internet, just look up Super Mario 64 disk edition on TH-cam or else where and there may be a download link to download the disk for your own Nintendo 64 emulator. Nintendo’s not even going to break the links to the rom either, they were happy someone found the disk and are protecting the link so that it can’t be taken down :D
Genuinely fascinating to see how far along this game was when journalists at the time were told the game was only "half-finished". This looks incredibly far along for a 'half-finished' build of the game
Wow, this is amazing! I'm sure this prototype still exists in some form deep within Nintendo's vaults, but for so long we've only had a handful of pictures and a few short little clip. Now we have some actual clear video and a good idea of what this prototype was like.
I'm pretty sure all of their games and every single compiled prototype is waiting in those vaults to be leaked. We know that prototypes of Yoshi's Island and Mario Kart SNES were leaked so I think this just goes to show how much they hold behind those doors. We all hope we get our hands on the real beta someday, of all their games. Don't understand why they're so secretive about them tho
Gonk droid #0923 considering the Nintendo gigaleak, it seems like Nintendo does a good job saving all of their files, so it probably exists and is playable.
Movement looks veey different in this build (no long jumps or backflips, sideflips dont go nearly as high, imediate pound when groundpounding, twirl after triple jump)
@@pafoneto1275 obviously it doesn't look like Odyssey but it's still nice to look at, it aged well graphically but also gameplay wise. Way better than games like ocarina of time. People still play mario 64 rom hacks, speedruns are thriving...
@@elali64 No, it didn't age well graphically lol. Stop lying. You don't need to lie just because you like the game. What? No, it doesn't look better than Ocarina, and people are still playing Ocarina. Again, if you like the game, that is okay. You don't need to lie about it.
@@pafoneto1275 I'm not lying. It's just my preferences. I find Mario 64 still playable if you have an appropriate frame rate. Why are you taking it so personnally ? Chill man... M64 is way more played than OOT and that's a fact. Of course OOT is better but today if I had to replay one of them either a romhack or vanilla it would be mario 100% it's just way more diverse.
I was right! The numbers on the doors do mean the level number, it makes even more sense now, the numbers are not textured with stars, every door has a different number from 1 to 4, and in the level select, when they selected stage 3, he came out a door with the number 3, so you don't need stars to open the doors, the numbers on the doors mean the stage number, I was right!
Sorry, I don't have skype setup, but regardless, I'll have the answer eventually. I noticed that I have a photo of the controller mapping. In the video most of the instruction board is not show, but I discovered we did get a photo of it here: www.gamezero.com/team-0/articles/industry/shoshinkai_1995/nu64-1.html If you look on the bottom right you can see it, unfortunately that image is too small (sized for 1995 web viewing). I do have the original photo someplace though and I've been looking for it. As soon as I find it I will scan it at a higher resolution and I will share it with everyone.
I have a few more scraps of footage that I need to put up that are side views of the screen or partial views of the screen but I just haven't had the time to focus on editing the video for upload. I'll get around to it as soon as I can.
What's bittersweet about this footage is that even though we may never play the early beta, we now know almost exactly how it would have played (not just tiny snippets). Amazing to see this footage is in such good condition after 20+ years, wonder if there's any for other beta games
This is incredible! For years I've wanted to see more footage like this. Super Mario 64 is such an important game, to be able to see more footage of it at this stage in development is fantastic, and it's something that should be preserved.
Wow, old Cool Cool Mountain is very different to what we ended up getting. And the minimap being there is surprising. Makes me wonder if 64 DS having a map on the touch screen was influenced by this in anyway instead of purely being there to make use of the bottom screen.
8:17 On the left there is b-roll footage showing more of the early tall tall mountain slide. 8:47 You can see the early bowser hallway for a few seconds before the player triggers the trapdoor and it cuts to the next footage.
I have no other way to put it: this is literal video game history. Definitely of the coolest things that I’ve ever seen on TH-cam, and this was uploaded WAY before the Wario Apparation or L is Real 2401 became widely recognized!
Me too however my n64 doesn’t load video to screen. Power light comes on but zero signal to the scart input. I have golden eye sat in the game slot too.
Wow, it was so amazing to finally find out what was in those two doors, although it was kind of disappointing but at least I found out. And apparently, they DID have Whomps in the beta version (Didn't know that). Also, I didn't know that the Tall, Tall Mountain Slide was a prototype of the Cool, Cool Mountain slide.
I..I..I just love this version its so different some games get VERY interesting beta versions because of the amount of changes i hope Dudaw sees this i just HOPE the Super maio 64 revival is VERY close to looking like this
This message appeared on his main page of dudaw.webs.com "The Super Mario 64 Beta Revival Project is never going to be canceled. Be patient." Dudaw Owner 07-03-2016
Koji Kondo didn’t need to revise any of the music apparently, it was perfect enough as it is. I imagine he was starting to work on ocarina of time around that time
Este video me dejo paralizado, realmente fue sorprendente ver como eran las promociones de los juegos que tenian otras caracteristicas tanto como las Graficas, Sonidos, Sprites, etc. Es muy impresionante los enormes cambios en el cual marco un antes y un despues del videojuego "Super Mario 64", la voz de Mario pasaba de una voz muy chillona a un tono grave, igual se mostro el pequeño detalle de la parte del cuello su melena tenia aspecto de "piramides" y el exterior e interior del castillo mas los niveles sufrieron cambios notables, tal como el caso de el stage "Montaña congelada" el diseño de los pequeños pinguinos y la mama de los pinguinos (su semblante lucia mas enojada que la version final) se podia ver que tenian un aspecto regularmente cambiado mas aun las reacciones de la madre eran algo mas rapidas y bruscas. Lo que igual me llamo la atencion fue el diseño y la musica de ambiente que tenia el nivel donde se encontraba el submarino de Bowser, algo mas que mencionar es que cada uno de estos niveles tenian un mapa que se ubicaba en la esquina superior de la derecha de la imagen del televisor (que eso no salio en la version final). Es importante tomar en cuenta que este gran videojuego estaba desarrollado en un 50% pero repitiendo los mismo, es muy increible estas capturas que fueron grabadas en la expocicion de Shoshinkai de el año 1995 y que esta a dias de cumplir 20 años. Simplemente esto es una reliquia de video y es muy sorprendente.
It's nuts how much more different Cool Cool Mountain is compared to other levels going into the final version, yet more similar in areas than first thought.
Hold up HOLD UP. I'VE NEVER SEEN ANY OF THAT ICE LEVEL BEFORE AND ITS FREAKING HUGE. AND I THINK THATS A MAP TO THE TOP RIGHT OF THE SCREEN ON THAT LEVEL, OMG
I can't message you here on YT for some reason, but am interested in using a little bit of this footage in an upcoming episode of my show. Can you please direct message or e-mail me using the links on my "About" page? Thanks!
Looking at this, I think about how this video was taken before anyone knew the amazing classic that is Ocarina of Time. Kinda blew my mind thinking of it. And that glimpse of the Zelda 3D tech demo @ 8:49. :D (I was born in late '93 so Ive known it for as long as I can remember.)
This is gold, my friends. This 1996 game's got us more excited than any game nowadays. And it's not the game itself, but its past. Very interesting. I wish I was alive by the time this happened. Does someone know if there exists a copy of the beta flying around internet?
***** That sounds totally possible. I don't know much about the development of the n64 except it was originally called ultra sixty four and the dd drive that stayed in Japan.
+Ultimaterockmanx135 Specs: "MIPS 64 bit RISC CPU running at 93.75MHz. Along with this is a graphics/sound co-processor running at 62.5MHz. Resolution on this unit runs as high as 640x480 in flicker-free interlace mode, using a 21 bit color palette."
"Super Mario; You cannot talk about the NINTENDO 64 without this video game here. Move around in the fantastic 3 dimensional world using the 3D stick. Graphics you have never seen before and a whole range of new actions make a totally new game experience." This is what the English text on the plaque says.
Rare showing Project Dream originally in the SNES and also this... Now what if someone finds those BETA versions? (Or Rare releasing the Project Dream SNES rom) Oh, and I noticed somewhere on the video a voice saying Super Mario Kart R, so I wonder if someone haves any footage of it in Shoshinkai like this it would be awesome.
TheArcadeStriker that voice is only in the traillers on some of the tvs also there are more hearings of the voice picked up in the video like "Kirby bowl" repeatidly going on from time to time
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It blows my mind that I'm able to just look up stuff like this. I mean, not just look up some information on the event, but with one click get transported back in time there. Thanks for the vid.
a quick glance into what the video game world was like before I was even born
@@bezolsmate when i realized: 1996 was 26 year ago ... i tought "we get great 3D games on N64, games can't get any better anymore" and ... I was right.
@@とふこ Yep, still waiting for 4D.
wait until you're 80 or 90 years old. Everything will be available online to look back at
You just discovered "video recording"? You sound just how a caveman would react to a video recording lol.
6:47 The first time anyone shortcutted in SM64.
that player was Albert “Simpleflips” Einstein
Lol
Almost shortcutted
*tried
Yes but so incredibly unsatisfying that they still died after that save. Top 10 worst moments in gaming.
For absolutely no reason I kept shouting "Quick, steal the game!" while watching the video
+Le Docteur *nintendo hires big brody to be their security* Big Brody: *grabs the game* I gotta bald head mothah fuckah! brody don't pay for shit!
Me too
I think we can say that someone did it :P The recent beta leak is amazing, take a look!
Me too
@@Tashiro64 the prototype leak (please don't call protos betas) came from iQue not from a gaming convention
These people's minds must have been completely blown by this in 1995. And they all suck at the game because they've never encountered anything like it before. Incredible.
Fraser McMillan I was thinking the exact same thing,they also showed the legend of zelda 64 beta too,it must have been a blast back then!
Daytona USA arcade was released a in 1993.Graphically is superior to Super Mario 64.
talking about 3D platformers on a console here, not a 3D arcade racing game
Mine was, I couldn't believe that you could co trolling the camera and the 3d looked out of this world.
I saw Mario 64 running on a videogame rental store back in 1996 and my mind was blown away. I was 12 and was already saving some money for it helping my patents with restaurant they had back in the day, and I managed to buy a N64 in 1997 on the age of 13, with my own money. It was such a happy day. Good old times.
I love how you can tell most of these players are just trying to wrap their head around how a 3D platformer works.
They seemed to adapt the longer they played though.
Wow this is pure gold, the only public footage of the mario 64 demo, were a few pics on magazines , publicity, official videos and some tv news, here you bring the complete puzzle of how was the beta version, amazing, thanks for this.
What's great about old footage like this is stuff you can't see in screenshots and magazines.
Like Mario's awful acceleration curve and super touchy turn radius that would have made this game awful if Nintendo didn't change it. lol
pretty sure the "touchy turn radius" is because of the controller and not the game, as this version of the controller apparently used a square gate rather than an octagonal gate
12:16 Sheesh, the slowdown when the submarine is on-screen is even worse in the beta demo! Also, I hadn't noticed before, but there's mines in the water next to the sub. Man, this video is chock-full of beta content! The minimap, the level select, the hilarious voice clips...
in the final game, some of the object files were built in O2 (namely title screen and sound driver), while here, nothing seems to have been built with O2, causing even more lag
YAAHAAAA
Yep the game was not properly optimized not even after release. But you can see how the demo was even less optimized.
New footage, and a lot of it. This is a pretty good day for the SM64 beta community.
Some things i've noticed and will point out are:
-SM64 once had a minimap. Which button was used to trigger it though? My bets are on the L button.
-We have much more footage of the ice level now, including where the Tall Tall Mountain slide was in the beta.
-The castle's layout is mostly revealed. Door on far left leads to the ice level, the one on the far right is Dire Dire docks, the one next to DDD is Lethal Lava land, so the door next to the ice level is Whomp's Fortress, probably.
-When Mario has 2 HP or less, the entire HP meter turns red, if you look hard enough. This is also the first time we've seen Mario's HP go this low in the beta, I think.
-If you listen as Mario grabs a star, he says 'Yeah!', obviously in a similar voice as the rest of his beta clips.
-Mario flies when shot out of a cannon, as if having a wing cap.
However, there's at least one thing we have yet to see: While we finally have footage of Mario going into the doors that would lead to the backyard of Peach's castle in the final version, we don't get to see Mario actually go into the door at the end of the hallway, which is a shame. What was back there in the beta version? Will that ever be answered?
IT did not have a mini map. it was only for the demo. everything was for the demo ONLY
SilverHazardX84 it's happening right now, visit BitBoy64's channel.
+MegaZack30
One thing you've missed is that Mario can slowly regenerate his health. I'm not sure if it was an press only thing, but it's there.
one of the platforms has a red blob on it, referenced on TCRF, at around 4:06
all throughout: mario doesn't lean in the direction he's running, which makes me think its smoother
~ 5:16 mario gets tired a lot quicker
5:36 mario doesn't do a minuscule jump upon touching a damaging fire hitbox, instead immediately starting to run from the burn
6:14 bowser's face's silhouette on death seems to be different, with more prominent cheekbones?
6:16 mario's "getting up from losing a life" animation is a bit different
7:41 mario doesn't seem to get a special "landing from high height" from snow, and instead takes fall damage
@@ViewpointProd Why would they program so many things for a demo then? These were all actual changes made.
So the Cool Cool Mountain slide was originally Tall Tall Mountain's? Interesting.
I also liked the Japanese people's reactions to the penguin chasing Mario there.
+Akfamilyhome nope, it wsa snow land (placeholder name) but elements of it where seperatyed to create thoes levels
+darkspire 17 Actually the map select calls it Mountain. You can actually translate it in the video, watch the menu that appears after he dies in the lava land.
+supermariosan100 Mm, yeah, my bad. #1 on the map select is Mountain, #3 is Snow Slider.
Emperor Zachary Water land is probably Dire Dire Docks.
@@CDiFails Mountain is Whomp's Fortress
About to turn 41 still gamer here. I first saw this in a magazine back in September 95. I wanted this console and game so badly that I held out against the PSX (though I got one in the end as swell as my n64).
It wouldn’t be until February 1997 that I got to spend a whole day playing Mario on a pre release demo at toys r us. Finally got mine at a midnight launch party March 1st 1997 with my mum dad and brother present. One of the best nights of my life!
When I first saw Mario 64 I was blown away and I have never wanted a game so much since. The Nintendo 64 and it’s controller were works of art to me too!
Now I have Mario 64 on the wii and dust it off about once every 2 years. Same goes for Mario bros 3. Mario bros 2 (us version) and game cube zelda wind waker atm.
Thankyou shigeru for so many astounding games.
EDIT: the magazine I first read this was issue 40 of superplay (February 1996) and I still have the magazine
Nice
Thanks for uploading this.
i wish i could have played this
I have a wii u remake.
Same
No it's the final 1996 launch title version.
Adam Rodgers TOO BAD!
UndeadPianist16 but u have, it was a game called Super Mario 64 on the Nintendo 64
Oh my gosh. I have looked a lot into the Super Mario 64 beta, and never saw ANY of this before!! I didn't realize there were segments so extensively filmed. The Super Mario 64 beta I've always wondered about, also kinda wish we coulda gotten our hands on a cartridge from the demo and someone could upload the ROM to the internet, just to see how far the game had come. This is awesome!
[Also neat seeing how confusing 3D controls were at first to people haha X3]
They actually found the cartridge someone demo’d at the E3 show at Nintendo back then when they were talking about the unveiling of the game, it’s only one particular game in existance also as well, it was a Nintendo 64 “Disk Drive” game that was a entirely completed Disk for the Nintendo 64 add-on but it was used for demoing purposes at the E3 show back in 1996, the game was label titled a bit differently also, it said Super Mario 64 Disk Edition and was the only one they ever made because the N64 DD failed to sale in Japan, so they couldn’t produce more cartridges with the budget they earned then to make more of the cartridge, the cartridge was however found being sold on eBay from someone auctioning it, the guy who got the cartridge/disk knew how to dump Nintendo 64 games on to the internet for the n64 emulators, so he dumped the game onto the internet, just look up Super Mario 64 disk edition on TH-cam or else where and there may be a download link to download the disk for your own Nintendo 64 emulator. Nintendo’s not even going to break the links to the rom either, they were happy someone found the disk and are protecting the link so that it can’t be taken down :D
No that version is the final build but on a 64dd cartridge
@@StickFiguresMaster is that true? i hope so. if it gets taken down though, it's gonna be real, REAL bad
@@kellymountain The cartridge they were talking about is dissapointing anyways. It's just Mario 64 running on the N64 DD and that's it.
@@bluepikman7851 then again it's rare
this is one of the most sought after prototypes besides the probably permanently lost Sonic 1 prototype
Ahem
Genuinely fascinating to see how far along this game was when journalists at the time were told the game was only "half-finished". This looks incredibly far along for a 'half-finished' build of the game
I like how they were unsure if they were actually going to call it Super Mario 64
Wow, this is amazing! I'm sure this prototype still exists in some form deep within Nintendo's vaults, but for so long we've only had a handful of pictures and a few short little clip. Now we have some actual clear video and a good idea of what this prototype was like.
I'm pretty sure all of their games and every single compiled prototype is waiting in those vaults to be leaked. We know that prototypes of Yoshi's Island and Mario Kart SNES were leaked so I think this just goes to show how much they hold behind those doors. We all hope we get our hands on the real beta someday, of all their games. Don't understand why they're so secretive about them tho
This should be preserved in a museum.
As long as it's playable
Gonk droid #0923 considering the Nintendo gigaleak, it seems like Nintendo does a good job saving all of their files, so it probably exists and is playable.
Imagine if a speed runner was there from today and showed them all how it should be played. It would blow their freaking minds 😂
Movement looks veey different in this build (no long jumps or backflips, sideflips dont go nearly as high, imediate pound when groundpounding, twirl after triple jump)
You know a game is monumental when it looks great almost 24 years later.
And what is that game? Because Mario 64 doesn't look great by any means.
You are the type of person that buys a game just because of the graphics.
@@pafoneto1275 obviously it doesn't look like Odyssey but it's still nice to look at, it aged well graphically but also gameplay wise. Way better than games like ocarina of time. People still play mario 64 rom hacks, speedruns are thriving...
@@elali64
No, it didn't age well graphically lol. Stop lying. You don't need to lie just because you like the game. What? No, it doesn't look better than Ocarina, and people are still playing Ocarina. Again, if you like the game, that is okay. You don't need to lie about it.
@@pafoneto1275 I'm not lying. It's just my preferences. I find Mario 64 still playable if you have an appropriate frame rate. Why are you taking it so personnally ? Chill man... M64 is way more played than OOT and that's a fact. Of course OOT is better but today if I had to replay one of them either a romhack or vanilla it would be mario 100% it's just way more diverse.
Oh-ho, man! This is some never-before-seen stuff from the beta! Thank you for sharing this history, this was my all-time favorite childhood game.
I'm so happy this footage exists, We get to see more of what the castle and Snow level looks like.
@Haha Haha What do you mean?
The castle in the beta of mario 64 is different because the picture of peach is a clock
@@GALAXY_THE_SILLY_PAL O RLY?!?! I DIDNT KNO DAT!!!
back a year later and a few clips and images exist of that
Wow, those people who got a chance to play this demo version, did got a huge glimse of what 1996 could bring us in terms of gaming😁
The clarity of this video is astounding.
I was at E3 when this game was showcased here and our minds were indeed blown.
Amazing to hear that!
I was right! The numbers on the doors do mean the level number, it makes even more sense now, the numbers are not textured with stars, every door has a different number from 1 to 4, and in the level select, when they selected stage 3, he came out a door with the number 3, so you don't need stars to open the doors, the numbers on the doors mean the stage number, I was right!
IS FOR SCIENCE!!
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Yeah, but only in the tech demo. The real game you need stars.
When you go into the paintings it shows you the stage number or "course number". Do those line up with the door numbers in the final?
Woah! It's mario in 3D! Can you believe it!?
Tfw we are never going to play the beta
It's a crushing feeling btw
It's still possible considering how extremely advanced sm64 modding is, just wait and some one will probably make it
Just you wait
if someone found a proto of a version of SM64 that never was released, there's a possibility of this being found too
@@TorutheRedFox luigi was found in mario 64 recently and source code and stuff
@@kellymountain I know
November 24th 1995 - November 24th 2015
20 years!!!
25..
Man, I discovered so many things with this video, awesome!
I remember those years, I was a little kid and OMG, the Nintendo 64 was such an amazing system! Super Mario 64 just blew my mind.
Never knew SM64 once had a map, it will be interesting to see if there is leftover data in the final game relating to it. Thanks for the footage.
+vinyboiler none at all, and trust me, ive torn sm64 apart many times
+supermariosan100 How are you so sure about that? It is a Pause/Continue/Select menu so why would it not be on the Start Button.
Sorry, I don't have skype setup, but regardless, I'll have the answer eventually. I noticed that I have a photo of the controller mapping. In the video most of the instruction board is not show, but I discovered we did get a photo of it here: www.gamezero.com/team-0/articles/industry/shoshinkai_1995/nu64-1.html
If you look on the bottom right you can see it, unfortunately that image is too small (sized for 1995 web viewing). I do have the original photo someplace though and I've been looking for it. As soon as I find it I will scan it at a higher resolution and I will share it with everyone.
that makes sense, just maps desinged to show the public, not to represent the final game
a techdemo realy
WOW, this is amazing. What an upload!! Upload more please!!
I have a few more scraps of footage that I need to put up that are side views of the screen or partial views of the screen but I just haven't had the time to focus on editing the video for upload. I'll get around to it as soon as I can.
I'll be filled with anticipation in the meantime, this footage gives so much insight on how the previous version differed, it's nearly unbelieveable!
Have you started working on the new video by any chance? :) I'd really love to see it. No pressure though!
7:37 yoooo the stage is massive
Massively boring
@@anterax4097 it's just like the original, but bigger
Yoshi4500 No it’s missing almost everything that made it special. Glad they redesigned it
What's bittersweet about this footage is that even though we may never play the early beta, we now know almost exactly how it would have played (not just tiny snippets). Amazing to see this footage is in such good condition after 20+ years, wonder if there's any for other beta games
That solid purple controllers though...
This is incredible! For years I've wanted to see more footage like this. Super Mario 64 is such an important game, to be able to see more footage of it at this stage in development is fantastic, and it's something that should be preserved.
That control stick is huge! 3:30
Dustin Zehner i notice that too
Wow, old Cool Cool Mountain is very different to what we ended up getting. And the minimap being there is surprising. Makes me wonder if 64 DS having a map on the touch screen was influenced by this in anyway instead of purely being there to make use of the bottom screen.
I've studied the old pictures many times in C+VG. This is like being there!
Imagine seeing this in 1995 and having to wait 1-2 years... I would have gone insane
Same
Okay, how long is the mountain in Cool Cool Mountain?! O_O
I swear it looked like Mario kept going down it forever!
Exactly what I was thinking
I think they shrunk the mountain in the final game because it looks way bigger.
8:17 On the left there is b-roll footage showing more of the early tall tall mountain slide.
8:47 You can see the early bowser hallway for a few seconds before the player triggers the trapdoor and it cuts to the next footage.
4:17 finally a video where people actually play the 1995 build
The first recording was so blurry in the beginning
I have no other way to put it: this is literal video game history. Definitely of the coolest things that I’ve ever seen on TH-cam, and this was uploaded WAY before the Wario Apparation or L is Real 2401 became widely recognized!
6:49 The first slide skip ever.
That's how sm64 shortcuts was born lol
Wow what a huge difference between this version of Mario 64 and the release version. Never seen any of this before
The N64 was still in development in 95 under the project name Ultra 64. I bought it in 97 and still got it.
Me too however my n64 doesn’t load video to screen. Power light comes on but zero signal to the scart input. I have golden eye sat in the game slot too.
Wow, it was so amazing to finally find out what was in those two doors, although it was kind of disappointing but at least I found out. And apparently, they DID have Whomps in the beta version (Didn't know that). Also, I didn't know that the Tall, Tall Mountain Slide was a prototype of the Cool, Cool Mountain slide.
Its crazy how much CCM improved from 1995 to 1996. The 95 version is interesting but the 96 version is iconic and really well designed.
I..I..I just love this version its so different some games get VERY interesting beta versions because of the amount of changes i hope Dudaw sees this i just HOPE the Super maio 64 revival is VERY close to looking like this
Speaking of Dudaw, I can't believe he was right about Mario flying after he got shot out of the cannon.
This message appeared on his main page of dudaw.webs.com
"The Super Mario 64 Beta Revival Project is never going to be canceled. Be patient."
Dudaw
Owner
07-03-2016
Mr. Crash His website also Updated Again This Year on March 6th ;)
@@SKN64Productions A big chunk of his website doesn't even exist anymore. That's worrying.
I wish I could go back in time to 1995 and play it
Koji Kondo didn’t need to revise any of the music apparently, it was perfect enough as it is. I imagine he was starting to work on ocarina of time around that time
@@sporligulous slightly
although, the title theme was completely redone
I was so sad when the video ended there, I really wanted to see the courtyard.
Me too :(
6:20 for the Early Level Select if you're here from tcrf.
I came from TCRF to see the early Mario crouch.
Este video me dejo paralizado, realmente fue sorprendente ver como eran las promociones de los juegos que tenian otras caracteristicas tanto como las Graficas, Sonidos, Sprites, etc. Es muy impresionante los enormes cambios en el cual marco un antes y un despues del videojuego "Super Mario 64", la voz de Mario pasaba de una voz muy chillona a un tono grave, igual se mostro el pequeño detalle de la parte del cuello su melena tenia aspecto de "piramides" y el exterior e interior del castillo mas los niveles sufrieron cambios notables, tal como el caso de el stage "Montaña congelada" el diseño de los pequeños pinguinos y la mama de los pinguinos (su semblante lucia mas enojada que la version final) se podia ver que tenian un aspecto regularmente cambiado mas aun las reacciones de la madre eran algo mas rapidas y bruscas. Lo que igual me llamo la atencion fue el diseño y la musica de ambiente que tenia el nivel donde se encontraba el submarino de Bowser, algo mas que mencionar es que cada uno de estos niveles tenian un mapa que se ubicaba en la esquina superior de la derecha de la imagen del televisor (que eso no salio en la version final). Es importante tomar en cuenta que este gran videojuego estaba desarrollado en un 50% pero repitiendo los mismo, es muy increible estas capturas que fueron grabadas en la expocicion de Shoshinkai de el año 1995 y que esta a dias de cumplir 20 años.
Simplemente esto es una reliquia de video y es muy sorprendente.
+20criscros De hecho la voz de mario era un placeholder.
¡Gran narrador!
I wish I saw this in person
Nice thanks for the footage :)
You're welcome, I'm glad everyone is enjoying seeing it.
Looks very likely they rework the minimap concept for Super Mario 64 DS.
Man Sm64 is coming together really well. I cain't wait for the release.
Welcome to Shoshinkai 1995.
This is the birthplace of many Nintendo Games!
7:16 -- Sounds like the voice in the background yells "Happy boner, the burrito!"
When will time travel be invented? I wanna go back to 1995 to play this beta of the game!
i wanna time travel to steal the system and bring it back
I want to pay tons of money for the Nintendo 64 dd to come out in America
never.lol
今となってはドチャクソ貴重やん
omg the minimap slid into view? this is enough to make a full blown hack with that
Dude, that man in the helter skelter of cool cool mountain is a pro, that trick is wonderfoul.
If only the SM64 Beta was leaked or something FFS! :(
@@chrispuhara8934 they would probably been arrested or something
Chris Puhara Only an Amerimongrel would do something that stupid. Japanese people are actually polite.
@@chrispuhara8934 Are you sure? Cause if someone gets caught for theft and arrested, they don't just keep what they stole you idiot.
Looks like the dream partially came true..
@@whitebanana7718 *PARTIALLY*
I wonder if, should they do a 64 Classic, they might include this build as an unlockable?
That dream is crushed.
hahahahaha no
why would they?
ここでファミコンスペースワールドと言うゲームイベントが行われた
5:41 UNUSED MINIMAP!.
6:17 what is mario doing?
SM64DS
@@spartanq201dexterbrother i know
@UltraLuigi2401 he's getting momentum
one day, we'll all get our hands on this rom. but yet the only closest to this rom is TPP.
this "temporary" super mario 64 is the most important one
@@TFREAKYYY I think promo is more interesting, Jolly Roger bay and big boos haunt are in it
10:05 THATS A MINIMAP ON THE TOP RIGHT!!
It's nuts how much more different Cool Cool Mountain is compared to other levels going into the final version, yet more similar in areas than first thought.
ものすごいワクワク感を感じる…
14:00 that level never ran at full speed, did it..
I'm shook.. I wonder if we'll ever get the chance to get a rom dump from this.
It's very unlikely, but you never know.
Dash120z very unlikely, I think even Nintendo knows that it's really sought after and any leaks would be immediately taken down
That mini map though !!
This is pretty good quality for 1995. I assume whatever camera this was being filmed with was really expensive.
It looks a decent consumer VHS camcorder, so no, it wasn't "expensive", but it wasn't that cheap either.
It was recorded on a Hi8 camera, don't remember the model.
@@GameZeroMagazine hey game zero do you have more content from sw95 i heard people said you had more videos
@@GameZeroMagazine also, have you by any chance seen a room with a hole in it?
All I hear:
“YIIHHAAAAAAA!”
“OOOOOOHHHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”
Hold up HOLD UP. I'VE NEVER SEEN ANY OF THAT ICE LEVEL BEFORE AND ITS FREAKING HUGE. AND I THINK THATS A MAP TO THE TOP RIGHT OF THE SCREEN ON THAT LEVEL, OMG
I can't message you here on YT for some reason, but am interested in using a little bit of this footage in an upcoming episode of my show. Can you please direct message or e-mail me using the links on my "About" page? Thanks!
Did you use the footage?
@@shivash1070 verified comment
Looking at this, I think about how this video was taken before anyone knew the amazing classic that is Ocarina of Time. Kinda blew my mind thinking of it. And that glimpse of the Zelda 3D tech demo @ 8:49. :D
(I was born in late '93 so Ive known it for as long as I can remember.)
Shoshinkai 1995, Nintendo 64 and Super Mario 64 Demonstrations 😀
This is gold, my friends. This 1996 game's got us more excited than any game nowadays. And it's not the game itself, but its past. Very interesting. I wish I was alive by the time this happened. Does someone know if there exists a copy of the beta flying around internet?
There is no known copy of this ROM.
4:38 yo the movement is so different
people can now use this for mario 64 research. thank you
Seems there is some lag when stepping on the submarine. I'm sure grateful they fixed that and to quote mario: Yeah!
***** That sounds totally possible. I don't know much about the development of the n64 except it was originally called ultra sixty four and the dd drive that stayed in Japan.
+Ultimaterockmanx135 Specs: "MIPS 64 bit RISC CPU running at 93.75MHz. Along with this is a graphics/sound co-processor running at 62.5MHz. Resolution on this unit runs as high as 640x480 in flicker-free interlace mode, using a 21 bit color palette."
***** No, no official messenger setup, you can send me a private message if you want to keep it off the video page.
Game Zero Thanks for the info.
+Game Zero was this you recording the gameplay back in the day?
You Hear How High Mario's Voice Is? Its Really High!
Every copy is personalized.
wario apparition
Do not research
WARIO SHOW YOU FUN!!!!
I wanna go back in time now because this creepypasta will be nonstop and that makes it worse and somebody knows who made the do not research thing?
Fun fact: the joystick the controller is massive.
release the other footage it's been 5 years already AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Sigh. Yes, I know. I'll see what I can do.
@@GameZeroMagazine Game Zero, do you have anything related to Twelve Tales: Conker 64/Conker's Quest? Thanks
@@GameZeroMagazine one year ago...
The thumbstick looks a bit bigger on the controller... Was it really going to be thicker the thumbstick before we ended up with a smaller one?
Yes the thumb-stick was larger in the initial prototypes.
please upload the rest of the footage, it's been nearly 6 years
"Super Mario; You cannot talk about the NINTENDO 64 without this video game here. Move around in the fantastic 3 dimensional world using the 3D stick. Graphics you have never seen before and a whole range of new actions make a totally new game experience."
This is what the English text on the plaque says.
“Graphics you have never seen before”
I wasn’t even born before the 90s but fuck, this hit me
That joystick is huge!
The mini map feature reminds me of the new map/map leaflets of each world you visit in Mario Odyssey.
And, to this day, we will never see what was beyond the center door.
bowser
Rare showing Project Dream originally in the SNES and also this...
Now what if someone finds those BETA versions? (Or Rare releasing the Project Dream SNES rom)
Oh, and I noticed somewhere on the video a voice saying Super Mario Kart R, so I wonder if someone haves any footage of it in Shoshinkai like this it would be awesome.
TheArcadeStriker that voice is only in the traillers on some of the tvs also there are more hearings of the voice picked up in the video like "Kirby bowl" repeatidly going on from time to time
Oh my God the game has a *minimap*
To be honest, the original design for Cool Cool Mountain looks dreadful. I'm really glad the final game's level is better.
Yeah it downright sucked
Este video vale oro...